Susceptibility testing with clavulanic acid: fixed concentration versus fixed ratio

Fixed drug eruption caused by amoxicillin-clavulanic acid.

Disk diffusion susceptibility testing of ticarcillin plus clavulanic acid.

Disk diffusion susceptibility testing of ticarcillin plus the beta-lactamase inhibitor clavulanic acid was performed on 489 clinical isolates, and the results were compared with reference broth microdilution susceptibilities. Four different disks containing 75 micrograms of ticarcillin plus 2.5, 5, 10, and 15 micrograms of clavulanic acid were evaluated. Based on test performance and clavulanic...

GOLD and the fixed ratio

Correspondence: Jørgen Vestbo Respiratory Research Group, ERC Building, 2nd Floor, University Hospital, South Manchester, NHS Foundation Trust, Southmoor Road, Manchester M23 9LT, UK Email [email protected] Dear editor I read with interest the paper entitled “Diagnosis of airway obstruction in the elderly: contribution of the SARA study” by Sorino et al in a recent issue of this jo...

Group Testing with Pools of Fixed Size

In the classical combinatorial (adaptive) group testing problem, one is given two integers d and n, where 0 ≤ d ≤ n, and a population of n items, exactly d of which are known to be defective. The question is to devise an optimal sequential algorithm that, at each step, tests a subset of the population and determines whether such subset is contaminated (i.e. contains defective items) or otherwis...

FEV(1)/FVC fixed ratio again!

Correspondence Correspondence to: Elie A. Akl, MD, PhD, MPH, State University of New York at Buffalo, ECMC CC-142, 462 Grider St, Buffalo, NY 14215; e-mail : [email protected] © 2011 American College of Chest Physicians. Reproduction of this article is prohibited without written permission from the American College of Chest Physicians ( http :// www . chestpubs . org / site / misc / reprints ...